2. How does Miri feel after dancing with the prince?
(a) Disappointed.
(b) Excited.
(c) Optimistic.
(d) Convinced she is not interested in him.

3. How is the prince described?
(a) Short and slightly chubby.
(b) Tall with red hair.
(c) Tall with dark hair.
(d) Short with blond hair.

4. What does the priest announce after the ceremony?
(a) Mount Eskel has gained favor in the king's eyes.
(b) According to the gods, the marriage is perfect.
(c) Mount Eskel is the sixteenth province of Danland.
(d) The king wishes to meet all the girls from the academy.

5. What do the bandits demand?
(a) Food.
(b) That Olana give the prince a letter.
(c) All their money.
(d) That the girl chosen by the prince be handed over to them.

6. What do Bena and Katar do during testing?
(a) Try to make Miri feel secure about the testing.
(b) Try to cheat off Miri's work.
(c) Sleep.
(d) Try to distract Miri.

7. How many girls do the bandits have?
(a) 0.
(b) 9.
(c) 1.
(d) 5.

8. What does Miri receive for her fifteenth birthday?
(a) One of her mother's dresses.
(b) A small statue of her mother carved from Linder.
(c) New shoes.
(d) A tablet of paper.

9. Who pulls Miri from the cliff?
(a) Almond.
(b) Peder.
(c) She gets up herself.
(d) Pa.

10. What does Miri begin to relate?
(a) Nothing; she is gagged.
(b) A story about the ghosts around the area that punish wrongdoers.
(c) A story about a dead princess who kills bandits.
(d) A story about bandits being chased out of Mount Eskel.

11. What does Os suggest?
(a) A trade.
(b) The bandits leave the girls and run without their other members.
(c) Nothing.
(d) The bandits take the girls they have and run.

12. Why are the girls sent to their bed chambers?
(a) They are supposed to decorate their bed chambers.
(b) There is a bad storm.
(c) The wagons with the prince arrive.
(d) There is a plague in the village nearby.

13. What has started blooming?
(a) The wild flowers.
(b) The mountain laurel.
(c) Britta's garden.
(d) The cherry trees.

14. Which bandits do not desert Dan?
(a) Only Dogface.
(b) Onor and Dogface.
(c) They all leave him.
(d) Os.

15. What does Olana blame on the girls?
(a) The departure of the prince.
(b) The failure of the prince to choose.
(c) The way Olana was treated by the nobles accompanying the prince.
(d) That the prince told Olana to work on their dance skills.